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Plum Island Develops New FMD Vaccine

(National Hog Farmer) The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designed a molecular vaccine to protect against one strain of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), which does not use the live FMD virus. The vaccine, created at the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) high-containment Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC), can be used Read More »

July 9, 2012
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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Keeping the flu away

(EurekAlert!) San Diego State University researchers at the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center may have found the secret to helping the immune system fight off the flu before it gets you sick. A new study published today in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, finds that EP67, a powerful synthetic protein, is able Read More »

July 9, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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Homeland Security Department develops foot-and-mouth disease vaccine

Los Angeles Times- It’s not often that the Department of Homeland Security makes it into a science blog, but this is an unusual week. The department announced this week that it has developed the first vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease that can be manufactured and licensed in the United States and that could be used in Read More »

July 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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Homeland Security Department develops foot-and-mouth disease vaccine

(Los Angeles Times) It’s not often that the Department of Homeland Security makes it into a science blog, but this is an unusual week. The department announced this week that it has developed the first vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease that can be manufactured and licensed in the United States and that could be used in Read More »

July 5, 2012
| Filed under Countermeasures and Public Health
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Be vigilant for anthrax

(CattleNetwork.com) Now is the time of year for livestock producers to be vigilant for anthrax. “The hot summer months of July and August are when we see most of our anthrax cases in the upper Great Plains,” says Charlie Stoltenow, North Dakota State University Extension Service veterinarian. “Cattle should have been vaccinated before they were Read More »